Director Asama Declares His Support for Taking Them All, All Virgins!

What should Sasuke do next?

Sakura was also very curious.

She considered Sasuke: Genjutsu wouldn't work on her clones, and with his current Taijutsu skills, he wouldn't be able to subdue that ice ball in a short time. So, should she really resort to that technique?

She didn't put too much Chakra into the Ice Clone, so the dense bombardment of the Ninjutsu couldn't last long.

In other words, if the battle needs to be ended before the clones run out of Chakra...

"Whatever you want to do, you must hurry now, Sasuke!" Standing on the high deck, the girl looked down at the battlefield and said softly.

Meanwhile, the Ice Clone asked the same question offstage.

"Sasuke, what exactly are you trying to do? Are you planning to just run away like this?"

Sasuke paused abruptly. His response was Ninjutsu Sasuke.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"

The massive fireball and the Water Dragon Bullet collided once more, annihilating into a scalding mist that filled the battlefield.

In the pitch-black fog, Sasuke's figure disappeared, but a strange bird call rang out from afar.

Lightning Release: Chidori!

A figure suddenly emerged from the thick fog, his hand gleaming with dazzling lightning, and charged fiercely towards the ice sphere where his clone was located!

Boom--!

The ice, harder than steel, was as fragile as tofu before Chidori. Sasuke's thrust, with unparalleled penetrating power and speed, pierced through the ice ball and the clone hiding inside in one fell swoop.

"It's over." The Mitsudomoe struck the Chidori's vital point in the chest with pinpoint accuracy. Sasuke exhaled softly, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Swish.

Sakura's clone finally dissipated, turning into... a puddle of water.

"What... Water Clone!" "That's right."

Sasuke turned around in horror, only to find an ice Kunai already pressed against his neck, the Ice Clone's words carrying a chilling breath as it touched the back of his neck—

"It's over, Sasuke. Your tactical intentions were too obvious..."

"Well--!"

Before the Ice Clone could finish speaking, her body suddenly stopped. She looked down in surprise and saw a hand wrapped in water-like lightning pierce through her chest, making a hole in her body, and then emerging from her.

The girl turned her head with difficulty, and behind her, the black-haired boy's blood-red Mitsudomoe was slowly rotating.

"So, is this tactic... covert enough?" the boy asked calmly.

Using the moment the water mist obscures the view, Naruto creates Shadow Clone, then uses the clone to lure the enemy before unleashing a thunderous attack from his own body—this is Naruto's signature moves... Standing on the deck, Sakura felt a pang of emotion.

"To think you could tame Chidori's Lightning Release Chakra quietly, no wonder I didn't hear a sound, amazing..." The Ice Clone, about to dissipate, said weakly. Her body had already started from her feet and slowly disintegrated upwards, turning into crystalline ice blocks.

"No, this is Lightning Blade."

Sakura had already complained that the enormous noise of Chidori was actually the result of not controlling the Lightning Release Chakra properly, so she suggested that Sasuke strengthen his basic training and master the Nature Transformation and Shape Transformation of Lightning Release. Now, seeing that Sasuke could actually tame the raging lightning into a still pond, Sakura knew that he had indeed put in a lot of hard work.

Sasuke withdrew his hand and said to the gradually dissipating clone, "This is... the end."

"Phew... it's finally over!" On the cruise ship, the director, who had been nervously observing the battle through high-powered binoculars, let out a long sigh of relief. "That was fantastic! A battle with intricately linked events!"

"Director Asama, why don't you keep watching? This battle," Sakura smiled mysteriously, "Has one last step!"

Yes, the final blow.

With a snap, the body dissipated, leaving only the head, which hadn't yet turned into ice, as the clone suddenly revealed a final, mysterious smile.

Sasuke was slightly taken aback.

Was something overlooked? Damn it, what is this Chakra?

Then came a deafening explosion.

Boom!

Ice Release: Clone Great Explosion Technique!

"With further practice, by infusing more Chakra into the combat-type Ice Clone, it can explode upon dissolution, transforming into countless ice blades to attack the enemy..." Excerpt from "Report on the Successful Development of 'Ice Release: Ice Clone' (Combat Type, Reconnaissance Type, and Medical Research Type)".

The Ice Clone faithfully completed its final function. Then, the explosion gradually subsided, and the calm sea surface was empty, with no trace of the pink-haired girl and the handsome boy.

The portly man's legs went weak, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Sasuke... is he dead?"

Of course not.

"I can still sense his Chakra. Not only is he not dead, he doesn't even have any serious injuries!"

As Sakura was writing, Sasuke had already climbed out of the water, his whole body soaked and looking extremely disheveled.

However, it was impossible to tell where the injury was.

The Ice Clone were indeed struggling against the Sharingan. Sakura thought to herself. According to the rule that the Water Clone' combat power is one-tenth of the original body, since the Shadow Clone are stronger than the Water Clone, and the Ice Clone are stronger than the Shadow Clone, the Ice Clone probably have about 30% to 40% of the original body's strength.

However, Sakura dislikes the idea that Ice Clone possess a fraction of the original's strength. This is inherently difficult to define; could ten Water Clones with even a tenth of the original's fighting power really contend with the original? Combat-type Ice Clone cannot activate "Cherry Blossom Impact," their reaction speed is too slow to keep up with Sasuke's pace, so no matter how they fight, they can't Sasuke. Even when they ambushed Sasuke at the last moment, Sasuke remained unharmed.

At that moment, the black-haired boy Body Flicker Technique returned to the cruise ship, looking like a drowned rat, which made Sakura burst into laughter.

As soon as he stopped, he saw Sakura still chuckling to herself, so he rolled his eyes at the girl and complained, "Sakura, your Ice Clone is really cunning!"

The pink-haired girl covered her mouth and giggled, saying, "But you still dodged it, didn't you? The Mitsudomoe is too powerful."

"Hmph," Sasuke said with a hint of pride, "I saw that there was still some Chakra left inside Ice Clone, and that's when I knew something was wrong."

"By the way, Mr. Asama," he asked as he approached the director, "Did you film both this training session and the previous one? Please give us a copy of the videotapes."

"I've taken the picture, wait a moment," the chubby man pressed a few buttons on the machine, ejected a videotape, and handed it to Sasuke. He added, "Using videotape to aid training, that's really advanced technology. Ninjas are quite up-to-date!"

Sakura smiled, her eyes narrowed, and explained, "Hehe, ninjas don't reject methods that truly improve themselves. Recording can reveal many things we can't see when we're on the sidelines, which is much more useful than verbal summaries after training. However, the cameras available on the market are too weak; if you shoot even slightly fast, the footage becomes incredibly blurry. Only your professional high-speed camera can keep up with our pace."

"Mr. Asama, the documents stored here contain some secrets of our Ninjutsu," Sasuke reminded him. "After you've extracted the appropriate material, please delete all the original documents. Thank you."

"Of course, of course," Asama Takehiko said with a smile. "I put the film crew's player in the dressing room. You can use that to watch; it's better than a regular VCR."

Sakura and Sasuke nodded their thanks and went into the cabin one after the other.

"Wow, director, I can't believe I got to see the prince and princess so close in person!" a staff member who had been huddled to the side exclaimed excitedly. "So handsome! So beautiful! They're even more elegant than in the photos, they're a match made in heaven!"

"Idiots!" Director Asama snapped. "Didn't I warn you? Sister Sakura is with me now, and she doesn't like us calling her 'Princess'! Don't you understand what Sister Sakura means?"

"So, the princess and the prince weren't a couple after all..." another boy said with a regretful look, "What a pity!"

"I don't think it's a pity at all. I think Naruto with orange hair is great too. I like the sunny, cheerful, and always smiling type!"

"Aww, the sunny boy and the Shakugan no Sakura are really a couple!" This young girl was swooning. But, the previous people said Naruto and Sakura were a couple, so why did she interpret it as Naruto and Sasuke being a couple?

"It must be a sunny, dominant guy paired with a handsome, submissive guy, so cute~"

"What?! My Sasuke is the cunning and domineering one! You're just pretending to know what you're talking about!" "Naruto/Sasuke shippers are furious!" "Naruto/Sasuke is the only way to go!" The fujoshi (female fans of male-male romance) started their usual infighting.

"A bunch of idiots... They have absolutely no taste!" Asama sighed, rubbing his forehead in exasperation as he looked at his incessantly chattering subordinates. "Haven't they ever heard of the term 'all for the taking'?"

"Sasuke is so handsome, didn't they notice anything suspicious? A boy wouldn't be so delicate-looking... So, the truth is, among these three, there's only one boy, and he's the harem leader, Naruto! And Sasuke is actually a shy girl disguised as a boy to get close to Naruto!"

Inside the cruise ship cabin, Sasuke, who had been pretending to be nonchalant and not having heard anything, suddenly bumped his head against the wall.

Rubbing his forehead, Sasuke forced a conversation. "Ahem, where's Naruto?"

The girl glanced at Sasuke. The cabin was dimly lit, so she couldn't see his expression, but Sakura was sure he was completely exasperated. Most people would turn pale and be speechless in this situation, but Sasuke remained calm. His mental resilience was far stronger than the sensitive and willful Sasuke in the original story.

"He's still sleeping!" Sakura chuckled. "This guy actually spent the whole night on the ship, doing special training! I really don't know what to do with him!"

Sasuke was speechless. "Let's go wake him up. With that idiot's recovery speed, he should be fully recovered after sleeping all morning."

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